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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Lynx Spiders (Oxyopidae) » Peucetia » Green Lynx Spider (Peucetia viridans)
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Spider eating bee - Peucetia viridans
Copyright © 2013 Melody Hendrix

Spider eating bee - Peucetia viridans
Mims, Brevard County, Florida, USA
October 29, 2013

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Spider eating bee - Peucetia viridans Spider eating bee - Peucetia viridans
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Contributed by Melody Hendrix on 5 November, 2013 - 1:07am
Last updated 5 November, 2013 - 6:23am

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Your prey is a yellowjacket, so in this case I'd say the spider did you a favor. However they do catch a lot of beneficials.
… Lynette Elliott, 5 November, 2013 - 6:23am login or register to post comments

Lot of spiderlings there
:)
… Ron M., 5 November, 2013 - 3:58am login or register to post comments

 
Thank you
Yes, there were thousands. I looked up the name you gave me and it looks like this spider eats beneficial pollinators.
… Melody Hendrix, 5 November, 2013 - 5:31am login or register to post comments

Green Lynx Spider Eating Unknown-To-Me Wasp.
(Someone else may know the wasp.)
… Ron Hemberger, 5 November, 2013 - 1:44am login or register to post comments

 
Thank you
Yes, there were thousands. I looked up the name you gave me and it looks like this spider eats beneficial pollinators
… Melody Hendrix, 5 November, 2013 - 5:32am login or register to post comments

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